Elegantly and chaotically, Rodney Hall falls into the vortex of history
- Written by Tony Hughes-d'Aeth, Professor, Chair of Australian Literature, The University of Western Australia
ShutterstockRodney Hall’s Vortex is the 13th novel in a long and distinguished career that includes two Miles Franklin Literary Awards for his earlier novels Just Relations (1982) and The Grisly Wife (1994). It is a historical novel, but with a particular sense of history in mind.
We are accustomed to regarding history as linear, punctuated...





